"Whom" makes you sound a bit dated. Etymologists will get the joke. ;-) (I suppose I should explain it. "Whom" comes from a dative case, and would is not des

"Whom" makes you sound a bit dated. Etymologists will get the joke. ;-) (I suppose I should explain it. "Whom" comes from a dative case, and would is not descended from a word that would be used for direct objects, but only for a subset of indirect objects and prepositional objects. However if elative uses relate to elated things, then surely dative uses in English relate to dated things, right?)